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1
Marriages and Families, 9e
  • Lamanna
  • Riedman

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Chapter 1Family Commitments
  • Making Choices in a Changing Society

3
Chapter Outline
  • Defining Family
  • The Freedom and the Pressure of Choosing
  • Making Choices
  • A Family of Individuals
  • Marriages and Families Four Themes

4
Defining Family
  • Law and Science
  • People related by blood, marriage or adoption.
  • U.S. Census Bureau
  • Two or more persons who share a household and who
    are related by blood, marriage or adoption.

5
Which of These Is a Family?
  • A husband and wife and their offspring.
  • A single woman and her three children.
  • A 52-year-old woman and her adoptive mother.
  • A man, his daughter, and the daughters son.
  • An 84-year-old widow and her dog, Fido.
  • A man and all of his ancestors back to Adam and
    Eve.

6
Which of These Is a Family?
  • Two lesbians and their children from a previous
    marriage of one woman and a previous relationship
    of the other woman with a male friend.
  • Two children, their divorced parents, the current
    spouses of their divorced parents, and the
    children from previous marriages of their
    stepparents.

7
Which of These Is a Family?
  • Two adult male cousins living together.
  • A 77-year-old man and his best friend.
  • A childless husband and wife who live 1,000 miles
    apart.
  • A divorced man, his girlfriend, and her child.
  • Both sets of parents of a deceased married
    couple.
  • Six adults and their 12 young children, all
    living together in a communal fashion.

8
American Households, 2000
9
Facts U.S. Families Today
  • Fewer people are currently married.
  • People are postponing marriage.
  • Cohabitation has emerged as a lifestyle
    intermediate between marriage andsinglehood.
  • Some cohabitants maintain gay and lesbian
    domestic partnerships.

10
Facts U.S. Families Today
  • The number of people living alone is substantial.
  • Many adult children live with their parents.
  • A much higher proportion of older men than older
    women are married.

11
Facts U.S. Families Today
  • Parenthood is increasingly postponed and
    fertility has declined.
  • More births are to unmarried mothers than in the
    past.
  • There are now fewer children and more elderly.
  • Divorce rates have stabilized, but remain high.

12
Facts U.S. Families Today
  • Remarriage rates have declined, but remain high.
  • Most children live in two parent households.
  • Over the last five years the proportion of
    children living in singleparent families has
    stabilized.

13
Facts U.S. Families Today
  • There is considerable variation in childrens
    living arrangements.
  • Children are more likely to live with a
    grandparent today than in the recent past.
  • Most parents are working parents.
  • Children are more likely than the general
    population or the elderly to be living in poverty.

14
New Definition of Family
  • Any sexually expressive or parentchild or other
    kin relationship in which people related by
    ancestry, marriage, or adoption
  • Form an economic unit and care for any young.
  • Consider their identity to be significantly
    attached to the group.
  • Commit to maintaining that group over time.

15
Making Choices
  • People make choices even when they are not aware
    of it.
  • There are two forms of decision making
  • choosing by default
  • choosing knowledgeably

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Making Choices Knowledgeably
  • Recognizing as many options or alternatives as
    possible.
  • Recognizing the social pressures that influence
    personal choices.
  • Clarifying ones own values.
  • Choosing knowledgably

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Choosing by Default
  • Choices people make when they are not aware of
    alternatives or when they pursue the path of
    least resistance.
  • Sometimes, college students choose their courses
    or even their majors by default.
  • Many decisions concerning marriages and families
    are made by default.

19
Choosing Knowledgeably
  • Two components in choosing knowledgeably
  • Recognizing as many options or alternatives as
    possible.
  • Recognizing the social pressures that may
    influence personal choices.
  • An important aspect of making knowledgeable
    choices is considering the consequences of
    alternatives rather than gravitating toward the
    one that seems most attractive.

20
A Family of Individuals
  • 91 of Americans report that family relations are
    extremely important to them.
  • Family values such as family togetherness,
    stability, and loyalty focus on the family as a
    whole.
  • Placing family wellbeing over individual
    interests and preferences is termed familism.

21
Families Boundaries
  • Families create boundaries between themselves and
    the rest of the world.
  • Families mark off physical space that is private
    and theirs alone.
  • Family members determine what is allowed to enter
    the family space and under what conditions.
  • Family boundaries create a space in which members
    can relax and be themselves.

22
Archival Family Function
  • Families create, store, preserve, and pass on
    objects, events, or rituals.
  • Archives contain a variety of symbols
  • Snapshots of happy times
  • Family movies
  • Artifacts from infancy or childhood
  • Symbols of recognition and achievement
  • Anecdotes which reinforce an identity as the
    reckless one, the helpful one, etc.

23
Marriages and Families Four Themes
  • Personal decisions must be made throughout the
    life course.
  • Decision making is a trade-off once we choose an
    option, we discard alternatives.
  • No one can have everything.
  • The best way to make choices is knowledgeably.

24
Marriages and Families Four Themes
  • People are influenced by the society around them.
  • Cultural beliefs and values influence our
    attitudes and decisions.
  • Societal or structural conditions can limit or
    expand our options.

25
Marriages and Families Four Themes
  • We live in a changing society, characterized by
    increased ethnic, economic, and family diversity
    by increased tension between familistic and
    individualistic values by decreased marital and
    family permanence and by increased political and
    policy attention to the needs of children.
  • This situation can make personal decision making
    more difficult and more important.

26
Marriages and Families Four Themes
  • Personal decision making feeds into society and
    changes it.
  • We affect our social environment every time we
    make a choice.
  • Making family decisions can mean choosing to
    become politically involved in order to effect
    family-related social change.
  • Making family choices according to our values
    gives our family lives greater integrity.

27
Quick Quiz
28
  • Placing family well-being over individual
    interests and preferences is referred to in the
    text as
  • familism.
  • modified individualism.
  • kinship focusing.
  • primokinship.

29
Answer a
  • Placing family well-being over individual
    interests and preferences is referred to in the
    text as familism.

30
  • 2. The archival family function refers to
  • cataloging family heritage.
  • family lineage.
  • maintaining the family as a unique experiential
    reality or group.
  • family tradition.

31
Answer c
  • The archival family function refers to
    maintaining the family as a unique experiential
    reality or group.

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  • 3. According to the text, the best way to make
    decisions about our personal lives is to make
    them
  • by default.
  • according to the principles of familism.
  • according to the principles of individualism.
  • knowledgeably.

33
Answer d
  • According to the text, the best way to make
    decisions about our personal lives is to make
    them knowledgeably.
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